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Is There a Gentle and Benevolent Version of Socialism?
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| March 19, 2016
| Helen Raleigh
Posted on 03/19/2016 1:36:29 PM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:36:29 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Only if you live in a country the size of New Mexico, with the population of Rhode Island, and have more Oil than Saudi Arabia and extremely secure borders.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:39:58 PM PDT
by
JPJones
To: Kaslin
"Is There a Gentle and Benevolent Version of Socialism?" Yes. It's the socialism where you get toilet paper until there is none left. But, you get to stand in line first for the daily allocation of squares. "Do you have a spare square?" "Sorry, I have no squares to spare".
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:40:16 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
To: Kaslin
No. Just ask the people of Cuba, North Korea, China, the former Soviet Union, etc.
To do all that socialism claims the government has to have the power to take from one and give to the other. And this authority has to be absolute.
It denies the individual their rights and freedom.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:41:00 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Kaslin
Only in a socialist’s mind.
The reality of socialism is a different matter.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:43:40 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Kaslin
Sure, in someone’s dream, but NOT in the real world.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:43:43 PM PDT
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: Kaslin
Yes, it is called "the family".
What works in small does not work in big and what works with children does not work with adults.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:46:18 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Kaslin
In a word, no. I believe I saw it first here at FR and it has, over the past 15+ years, become even truer now than ever.... “Socialism is just communism with a smiley face.”
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:46:24 PM PDT
by
XenaLee
(The only good commie is a dead commie)
To: Innovative; moovova
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:46:52 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
To: Kaslin
Is There a Gentle and Benevolent Version of Socialism?Is there a gentle and benevolent version of the commandment, "Thou shall not steal."?
To: Kaslin
No, there isn’t. Socialism saps the energy and initiative and ambition of a people until there is nothing left but a dependent shell of what once was a free and independent human being.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:49:08 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: JPJones
You mean how Sweden USED to be.
A Homogeneous, Mono-Cultural Society that only shared borders with people who shared their same religion and beliefs?
THEN you had Millions of disassociated people who never paid a dime into your Social Net at any point and are rapidly overwhelming and draining the money that the natives put years of the life into and who will never see a kroner of it back again?
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:49:09 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Trump supporters aren't bought and paid for, Cruz supporters aren't establishment shills, okay? Good)
To: XenaLee
As P. J. O’Rourke put it, “Socialism is communism sold by the drink”.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:50:03 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:51:57 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: Kaslin
Socialism can work well, on a small scale and limited basis and if it is entirely voluntary.
It’s all about scale and lack of coercion.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:52:07 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Kaslin
To: Kaslin
That idea is like being “partially pregnant”.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:54:18 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: KC_Lion
“You mean how Sweden USED to be.”
Yup. You caught me. I was thinking Norway.
But the laws of “northern euro socialism” are completely opposed to what Bernie wants:
Taxes for the rich in Norway/Sweden =25%
Taxes for the rich in US =36% and Bernie wants to raise to 95%.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:54:33 PM PDT
by
JPJones
To: GeorgiaDawg32
1982 Jami Gertz McDonald's Commercial
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:55:58 PM PDT
by
newfreep
(TRUMP & <S>Cruz</S> 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
To: Kaslin
Tyranny must always be in the wings as an option for socialism to function. Take it away and someone might not want to share.
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posted on
03/19/2016 1:57:29 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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